Karl von Lilienthal

| birth_date = 31 August 1853 | birth_place = Elberfeld (Wuppertal), Rhine Province, Prussia, German confederation | death_date = | death_place = Heidelberg, Baden, Germany | occupation = Jurist
Professor of Criminal Law and Process
Part-time assistant judge | party = | known_for = | alma_mater = Berlin
Heidelberg | spouse = Anna Boehle (1857–1931) | father = Ludwig von Lilienthal (1828–1893) | mother = Henriette Seyd (1832–1886) | children = Franz von Lilienthal (1881–1932)
and 2 daughters }}

Karl von Lilienthal (31 August 1853 - 8 November 1927) was a German scholar of Jurisprudence who became a university professor of criminal law. After working briefly as an Assessor (legal assistant) at the Wuppertal District Court he taught successively at the universities of Halle, Zürich, Marburg and then, between 1896 and 1924, Heidelberg, where he also served several terms as Dean of the Law Faculty and, for some years between 1902 and 1919, engaged in a parallel part time career in town as an assistant district judge.

Beyond the academic world, in 1902 von Lilienthal was one of eight eminent jurists who accepted invitations to join the government's new "Criminal Justice Committee" ("Strafrechtskomitee"), which went on to recommend a series of important reforms to the criminal law. For the rest of his life he was an influential commentator on the selective implementation. over several decades of the commission recommendations. An eye catching intervention came, towards the end of his life, in 1925 when he submitted a criticism of the newly drafted penal code in which he called for the paragraphs purporting to restrict abortion rights to be removed and for the criminalisation of homosexual acts to be ended. Provided by Wikipedia